This is an analysis of the poem Realization that begins with:
I smiled with skeptic mocking where they told me you were dead,
You of the airy laughter and lightly twinkling feet;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX bXbX caca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101111101 10010101101001 101011100111011 1011111011101110 110111000111010 1101110111101 11010101110001010 01110100111010 11111100110101 11011100011101 11110010110101 1111010111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Realization;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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